Welcome to the 5th Hour Hydrocarbon Polymer Resource Wiki

On this wiki, you can post the web resources that you find helpful for the following categories:

What is a Polymer?: General Information about Polymers

How are Polymers Formed?: Information about the Formation of Polymers

How does the Structure of a Polymer affect its Properties?: Branching and Crosslinking

Condensation Polymers and Builder Molecules with Functional Groups

Each post should take the following form:
Link to the resource. Description of resource (can also include why you found this resource helpful). First name and last initial.

What is a Polymer?

http://www.chemistryland.com/PolymerPlanet/Polymers/PolymerTutorial.htm This is an article with examples of polymer. I think it’s a useful website because it has good information and it has good pictures. Sari M

www.professorgizmo.com video, short clip on what a polymer is. Jessica V.

http://www.chemistrydaily.com/chemistry/Polymer_chemistry it has a lot of information so you could find the definition. Yeny P

http://www.polymerambassadors.org/Whatispolymer.pdf what kind of website is it article, definition. Why is it useful it is useful to me because it has very standard words well wrote out and easy to read very detailed. Tiquia W

http://pslc.ws/macrog/kidsmac/basics.htm. this website is a kid friendly website I find this resource very helpful because it gives good information and pictures to show how things are worked and what they do. Jada. G

http://www.cem.msu.edu/~reusch/VirtualText/polymers.htmit will tell you all the info you need about polymers. i like the web because it tells you how it work and exsplain the steps. JavonC

http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/WofMatE/polymers.htm this website tells you what a polymer is and everything else you need to know about polymers Codie S

http://pslc.ws/macrog/kidsmac/wiap.htm this web site help understand what polymers are and how they are used. This website is also well detailed and less reading but easy to understand what you reading. :) Bella H.

http://education.andrew.cmu.edu/gelfand/scimodules/1._What_is_a_polymer.html this site helps describe what a polymer is and what its characteristics are . Also describe in detail the properties it contains. – Juan V

http://mst-online.nsu.edu/mst/polymer/polymer.htm It’s an article. I think it is helpful because it has specific information. Its easy go to through to find out you need. Dominique R.

http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/polymerIt is easy to read and understand. They brake it down a little better so you ca understand.- Fernando E

http://biotech.about.com/od/glossary/g/polymer.htm. This website is a good website because it tells you everything you need to know about to understand the meaning of a polymer. Javon S

http://homepage.mac.com/mag16/research/index.html. This is an article it shows everything and it even has questions and the answers on it...so that you can understand some things. Carisa R.

How are Polymers Formed?

http://cmc.ihmc.us/cmc2008papers/cmc2008-p241.pdf
This site is full of information that helps readers learn about how polymers are formed and everything, step by step process to help acknowledge reader.- Juan v

http://cmc.ihmc.us/cmc2008papers/cmc2008-p241.pdf
This site is full of information that helps readers learn about how polymers are formed and everything, step by step process to help acknowledge reader.- Juan v

http://www.iscid.org/encyclopedia/Polymersthe resource tells you everything you need to to know about how polymers fromed.i feal like the source is helpful...because it use all the helpful words..JavonC

http://chemistry2.csudh.edu/rpendarvis/Polymer.html. this an informational text I find this resource helpful because it shows pictures and steps to show you how it stuff is done.
Jada. G

http://neutrons.ornl.gov/research/areas/polymers.shtml this site is very helpful and tells you how polymers are formed Codie S

http://chemistry.about.com/od/polymers/a/monomers-polymers.htm what kind of article is this it is an definition. It is a useful definition because it is well thought out and very easily to read and understand. Tiquia

http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/polymers/polymers.html This website is very useful in many different ways. It gives you the answer that you are looking for, and tells you absolutely every detail about polymers. India M.

http://www.materialsworldmodules.org/resources/polimarization/2-polymers+monomers.html this is the coolest web site ever. It shows you how polymers are used and the different between a polymer and a monomer. Bella.H and Vanessa R.

http://library.thinkquest.org/C003844/a_make.htmit has a lot of points.- Fernando E

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=196631 multi-info about polys. and their structures. Good pictures. Thalia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nCfbZwGWK8&feature=related. Youtube video...a scientist explaining and giving examples of polymerization. Its a simple demonstration! Good stuff (: Vanessa R.

http://matse1.mse.uiuc.edu/polymers/prin.html. the website explains how polymers are formed. Yeny P. and Dominique R.

http://www2.norwich.edu/hoppe/ch104/CA81.pdf. Article--this website shows the polymerization and what its all about it show all the processes of a polymer. And it asks u questions well they explain Carisa R

How does the Structure of a Polymer affect its Properties?

http://www.mansic.eu/documents/PAM1/Morawiec.pdf. This website is very useful because it doesn’t just give you the answer, it gives you more than that. It tells you a lot of more things besides the affects of the polymers affect of it’s properties. India M

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer#Pol… the web page above will help you finde everything you need to finde your answer.
it exsplain everthing with detail.JavonC

http://polymer.eu/ this other website also helps describe step by step on what the properties of a polymer are.-Juan v

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Polymer_chemistry This website with a lot of information helps every one know the affects on a propery of a polymer.-Juan V


http://www.ask.com/wiki/Polymer This is an article it is useful and very well write out it has very useful points in the article very standard writing. Tiquia W

Condensation Polymers and Builder Molecules with Functional Groups

http://www.sheboyganfalls.k12.wi.us/staff/pdeibert/syllabus_for_chemistry_in_the_co.htm

helps describe with full i8nformation and in detail about the topic. Good resource
Juan v

http://www.materialsworldmodules.org/resources/polimarization/4-condensation.html
this website explains in good detail, offers pictures and many more. A very excellent resource. -Thalia V